Posts Tagged ‘no change’

A Life of No Change

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

I was listening to an interesting talk today and basically the expert was saying that if we went back just 300 years, our ancestors were all living lives that basically never knew change.  You would expect to die in the same place you were born, follow your fathers footsteps and do his job in the same way as he did it before you.  We are sometimes overwhelmed by the pace of change in our lives but the alternative of living with no change at all seems equally unthinkable to us.  So it isn’t change itself that we don’t like, it is not feeling in control of it, and not having any choices in the matter.  Having been snowed in twice this year, I’m very familiar with the frustration of not being able to go somewhere different, of having my choices removed.

Managing Change is about getting the balance right, and about enabling people to chose what works best for them, ignore these simple truths at your peril!

The view from a tunnel

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

I was talking to my lady wife today, discussing the change in the rate of change in our lives.  When we were younger life seemed to be composed of passing a series of landmarks such as marriage, the births of our children, job & house changes etc.  Then it feels like you get to a place where these waymarks no longer exist; it rather reminds me of my drive across Canada when I got to the plains states and one could drive all day and nothing seemed to change.  It maybe that, like my Canadian road trip, that I am bang on course, but at present it feels like one in sitting in a stationary train in a tunnel, one maybe on track but there are no visible signs.

People talk a lot about the periods in the change cycle when lots is happening, but these more static periods are very much part of the process too. 

I’d be interested to hear how you handle these periods…

“We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.”  Lynn Hall

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”  Ellen Glasgow

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